About this episode
Max Stoiber discusses his work at OpenAI and the evolution of open source projects.
This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part of GitHub and eventually helped shape GitHub Discussions, the founder growth that came from building Stellate, the GraphQL cache that turned into a dual acquisition by Shopify and The Guild, and why ChatGPT apps feel like a new surface for software.
People in this episode
Guest: Max Stoiber
Topics covered
- open source
- ChatGPT
- software development
- GitHub Discussions
- GraphQL
- technology trends
Keywords
- open source
- ChatGPT
- GitHub
- GraphQL
- software
- Stellate
- Spectrum
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI, GitHub, Shopify, The Guild
Products: ChatGPT, react-boilerplate, styled-components, Spectrum, Stellate, GraphQL cache
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